At the entrance of the sword hall, an old man in his sixties was holding a cane and half-squinting his eyes, feeling drowsy.
Ning Changjiu walked to the front and knocked on the table.
The old man raised his eyelids slightly, glanced at him, and asked, "What's going on?"
Ning Changjiu said: "Lu Marian asked me to come and get the wooden sign."
"Lu Marion...who is it?" The old man thought for a moment, scratched his hair, then was startled, his eyes widened, and said, "How dare you call the acting peak master by his name?"
Ning Jiujiu nodded and said, "Well, she asked me to come."
The old man looked him over and said, "I just heard the noise outside. It seems that the peak master has brought back a disciple?"
Ning Changjiu said: "That's my junior sister."
The old man asked: "Where is your junior sister?"
Ning Changjiu said: "She is now in the sword hall, performing the ceremony of becoming a master with Lu Jianjian."
The old man was shocked again: "Inner disciple?"
Ning Jiujiu nodded and said: "Junior sister is very talented, so she should naturally be accepted into the inner sect."
The old man looked him up and down, then suddenly laughed and said: "No wonder you call the peak master by his name. It turns out that it's because your junior sister was accepted as an inner sect, but you just took the name, and you feel dissatisfied."
"..." Ning Changjiu said: "She wouldn't let me call her Miss Lu, so I called her by her name."
The old man was startled, gave a thumbs up, and said, "You kid is really not afraid of death."
Ning Jiujiu frowned and said, "Is that Lu... Peak Master usually very fierce?"
The old man thought for a while and said: "Five years ago, that girl was still very gentle and kind. Since the old man passed away, her lineage has been cut off. She has skipped a generation and taken over this great responsibility. Since then, the girl has begun to change. I must be cold and withdrawn, and smile seriously. I have no choice but to be kind and bullied, so I can only adopt a cold attitude. Alas, but even so, I have suffered from the secret losses of other peaks over the years."
Ning Jiujiu nodded, expressing his understanding, "It is indeed not easy for Peak Master."
The old man took out a wooden sign and a carving knife from the cabinet, pushed them to Ning Changjiu, and said: "Carve two copies, take one away and leave one with me."
Ning Changjiu took the carving knife and wrote it instantly.
"The calligraphy is pretty good." The old man marveled and said, "Have you deliberately practiced this strength?"
Ning Changjiu said: "The words are just like the person they are."
The old man tightened his grip on the cane, stared at the young man in white in front of him, and said seriously: "It's a pity that you are just a registered disciple."
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Ning Xiaoling went through the ceremony of apprenticeship.
"Sister Lu, is this all right?" Ning Xiaoling finally followed the mural of her name and wrote it on the roster in a crooked way.
Lu Marion's eyes slightly curved and she said, "Don't call me Sister Lu anymore."
Ning Xiaoling was startled, then realized what she was doing and said seriously: "Yes, Master."
Lu Marry rubbed her head with satisfaction.
Ning Xiaoling asked: "What about senior brother?"
Lu Marian sighed: "I'm too lazy to care about him."
Ning Xiaoling opened her eyes wide and said, "Actually, Sister Lu still cares about senior brother very much, right?"
Lu Marry poked her forehead and said, "Call Master."
"Yes, Master."
"Well, in the future of practice, you may have less and less contact with your senior brothers. If there are senior brothers and sisters in the same sect who give you trouble, just tell me."
"Oh, I see."
"Hey, if your level is much higher than that of your senior brother in the future, don't worry about it."
"Actually, I know that it has always been my dream to practice Taoism well. Now that I can become a disciple of Sister Lu, I am very happy... Senior brother should also have his own things to be busy with. I am very content if I can live closer. .Actually... I'm quite clever."
Lu Marry stopped and looked back at her.
Ning Xiaoling also stood on the spot, with her hands clasped behind her back. She was wearing a skirt that made her skin white and childish. She looked at Lu Wenwen with a faint smile on her face, like the first melting of a spring stream.
The corners of Lu Marian's mouth raised slightly, and she suddenly smiled: "You ghost girl, you always pretend to be stupid?"
"Where can there be..."
Ning Xiaoling smiled.
In the corridor, Ning stood quietly waiting for a long time. After seeing them, he picked up the wooden sign and shook it gently.
Ning Xiaoling walked up quickly and said happily: "Senior brother, we are in the same sect again."
Ning Jiujiu smiled and said: "Yes, junior sister is still an inner disciple with a transcendent status. She must protect senior brother from now on."
Ning Xiaoling frowned and said, "Senior brother is laughing at me again."
Under the corridor, the shadows of the trees were whirling. Lu Jianwen walked silently through the shadows of the trees. Under the stairs of the corridor, she looked at Ning Changchun and said, "I'll talk to you alone."
"Okay." Ning Changjiu was equally straightforward.
Lu Marian patted Ning Xiaoling's head and said: "You go out to see Junior Sister Yazhu first and ask her to take you to the mountain gate. Don't think that this place just looks like a garden of a secular dynasty. There are many mysteries hidden in it." It’s an unspeakable cave.”
Ning Xiaoling nodded obediently.
After the girl left, only Lu Marian and Ning Changjiu were left in the courtyard of the sword hall.
The long corridor is as straight as a sword, one side is deep and deep, and the other side is soaked in light and wind. Lu Jiaomei is holding the sword, and her slim figure is walking slowly in the corridor with slight light and shadow, and the charm is ethereal.
"I know you just want to find a temporary place to stay, or you just want to wait here for the master to come back and heal your junior sister." Lu Marion was the first to speak.
"All of them." Ning Jiujiu nodded.
Lu Married said: "Well, you are a great favor to me, and your junior sister is extremely talented, and will be of great significance to the future of Tianku Peak, so I will respect whether you stay or go in the future, as long as you don't break the sect's rules during this period."
Ning Changjiu said: "Thank you Miss Lu, but if you let me and my junior sister go that day, your kindness will have been repaid. You don't have to take this matter to heart in the future."
Lu Marian hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded gently and said, "If you need anything, you can ask Yazhu to tell me. If you have any problems with cultivation, you can also come to me privately."
Ning Changjiu smiled gently and said, "I may indeed have many problems to trouble Miss Lu in the future."
Lu Marian asked: "Then what are your plans next?"
Ning Jiujiu said: "I need time to think about some things. I may hide in the hut and retreat. When I figure it out, I will come out."
Lu Marian looked into his eyes, feeling a little pity for no reason, and said: "If you could change your body, with your character and qualifications, it would be hard to estimate how far you will go in the future."
Ning Jiujiu asked: "You also feel it's a pity, right?"
Lu Marry hesitated for a moment and then said yes.
Ning Jiujiu asked: "Girl, I have heard before that there is a folk saying of 'gamble', which means that before cutting a stone, no one knows whether it is still a worthless stone inside or not." Priceless jade.”
Lu Marry had heard about it and understood what he meant, and asked: "You mean, do you think you are a covered jade?"
Ning Changjiu shook his head gently: "I mean, I lack a knife that can split stones."
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After parting ways with Lu Jianjian, he walked out of the hall. Several disciples looked at him from a distance, as if they were saying something.
He ignored it and walked forward.
Ning Xiaoling did not go far from Yazhu and kept waiting for him outside the house.
"Senior brother, just now Sister Yazhu asked me to choose a room. I couldn't make up my mind, so I wanted to ask senior brother." Ning Xiaoling waved to him happily, revealing her porcelain white and small teeth when she smiled.
Ning Jiujiu smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, the places chosen by Junior Sister are all good places."
"Uh, why?" Ning Xiaoling raised her head and asked.
Ning Changjiu said: "The ancient books say that the place where the white fox lies is the best soil. Junior sister can choose wherever she likes."
Hearing the word "white fox", Ning Xiaoling suddenly thought of the little fox whose demonic nature was annihilated and turned back into an innate spirit lying in the purple mansion.
At this moment, her senior brother's words reminded her of the strange dream she had had before.
In the dream, there seemed to be a tree growing on the mound where I was lying. If I kept having that dream, I don’t know how tall the tree would grow.
"Okay, I'll take my senior brother to pick out a house." Ning Xiaoling grabbed his sleeve and pulled him forward.
Yazhu looked at them and smiled calmly.
Just thinking that in the future, the gap between them will become wider and wider on the road of spiritual cultivation, and this sincere and hard-earned brother-sister relationship will sooner or later turn into misty clouds in name only. She couldn't help but sigh softly. After all, too many such things have happened. .
Outside the sword hall, a woman in plain white sword clothes pushed open the door and walked out. She looked at the back of Yazhu leading them away, and her expression was in a trance. Beyond the layers of clouds, there seemed to be a crisp white color falling down.
She touched her fingers together, and a piece of white snow fell on her fingertips, taking on the shape of a hexagonal crystal, and then quickly melted.
She retracted her fingers and hid them in her sleeves, looking past the star stones suspended on the Tiancao Peak to the sky further away.
The sun is still shining, but the snow is falling.
Then she suddenly remembered that it was winter again.
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